Friday, April 15, 2011

Spit take

Every baseball team, including the Tampa Bay Rays, uses a clean-up hitter, in the sense that the clean-up hitter bats fourth. Teams don't have to call the guy the clean-up hitter; that's the long-time naming convention, but I suppose they could call him Ray, and they could call him Jay . . .

However, somebody must bat fourth in every team's batting order. Stretching the principle that sometimes a team needs somebody, ANYBODY to bat fourth, I present you last night's lineup for the Rays.* And they won, so it must've worked!